Electronic Arts brings The Sims FreePlay to Windows Phone 8

When Electronic Arts announced Tetris Blitz would be coming to Windows Phone in late September, nosotros fully expected that to be the publisher's just Windows Telephone release this month. Equally it turns out, EA did have some other release in store for us, though information technology popped up a little late in the solar day: The Sims FreePlay!

The Sims FreePlay is the 3rd Sims game for Windows Telephone, following The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval. Merely those games are essentially simple RPGs dressed in Sims clothing. The Sims FreePlay is much closer to the true Sims games for PC and Xbox 360. As the proper noun suggests, information technology's too free to play. You'll need a Windows Phone 8 device with 1 GB of RAM to install information technology. More than details later on the pause!

The Sims FreePlay Store clarification:

LET THE FREEPLAY BEGIN! CREATE UP TO 31 CUSTOMIZED SIMS FROM HEAD TO TOE, AND…

Design dream homes complete with swimming pools and multiple stories
Permit your Sims get married, make babies, and then scout them grow into toddlers and pre-teens
Care for pets, grow gardens, fifty-fifty bake a cake
Requite your Sims careers and earn Simoleons to improve their situations
Consummate goals for Lifestyle Points, then spend them on hip items
Live with your Sims in real-time (when it's day or night for you, it'southward the aforementioned for your Sims!)

The master deviation between FreePlay and the previous Windows Phone games is the real-time element. Everything your Sim (virtual person) does now takes time to complete – the same amount of fourth dimension information technology would take in real life, basically. Your Sims do nothing when you're not playing, so you'll need to check on them throughout the day in order to brand progress.

Complimentary to play mechanics

We're always glad to see some other Xbox-enabled game on Windows Phone, especially from important publishers similar EA. Now that the EA and Nokia exclusivity deal has ended, it looks like EA'southward games volition be available to all. Sims FreePlay and Tetris Blitz are both launching as free to play games, whereas the Nokia exclusives all had their costless to play elements removed (for ameliorate or worse).

Much of the fun in Sims games is decorating a business firm and acquiring new appurtenances for your Sims to interact with. These things of class toll money (Simoleans). Your Sim tin get a job, sell the vegatables they abound, and complete other actions to earn money. Of course this is a free to play game, and then players can buy Simoleans with real money.

The game'southward second currency Lifestyle Points are used to complete timers and make things become faster equally well as buy premium clothing and furniture. Lifestyle Points can exist bought via In-App Purchase every bit well.

Get gear up to Simulate

The Sims FreePlay is a large download, and like other Windows Phone 8 games, it requires about 4x extra gratis infinite in order to install. Two gigabytes of free space should practise it.

Annotation that the publisher actually doesn't want players to cheat by messing with their telephone'southward clocks. As such, FreePlay requires an internet connection in guild to play. Make sure y'all watch the official video trailer above.

TheSims FreePlay – Windows Telephone 8 (1 GB of RAM) – 427 MB – Free – Store Link

Thanks, Kyle Due south. and Kevin G., for the tips

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